Sioux Falls: Around three dozen acres of a field near Tea are scorched in a grass fire. The Tea Fire Department says the fire got out of control around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. What fire officials believe happened was a farmer was burning some tree branches and debris in his pasture when the wind blew embers onto tall grass nearby in a marshy area near 272nd Street and 470th Avenue just east of Tea

Rapid City police are investigating the death of a pedestrian. Authorities say the 43-year-old man was struck by a pickup truck about 5 p.m. Wednesday while crossing a city avenue, outside of a crosswalk. He died later at a hospital.

A Wagner man was arrested for allegedly punching a law enforcement officer. On Oct. 30, Russell Jandreau, 28, was charged with simple assault against a law enforcement officer. A status hearing is scheduled for Nov. 6.

Sioux Falls: Authorities are investigating a deadly weekend shooting. It happened around 1:45 a.m. Sunday on the 1800 block of West 10th Street. According to police, officers arriving at the scene discovered a 34-year-old Sioux Falls man had been killed.

The person who died from injuries he suffered in a crash Wednesday near Spearfish has been identified. A vehicle driven by Richard Griffith, 47, of Whitewood, hit the side of a bridge on Acorn Ridge Road east of Spearfish, according to the Department of Public Safety. The vehicle went into the ditch and rolled. He was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle.

Watertown: Authorities say a Watertown man is dead after a bar fight last weekend. Codington County Sheriff Brad Howell says 40-year-old Jeremy Buol died Wednesday. An autopsy was planned, and the sheriff says more charges might be filed once the investigation is complete.

Sioux Falls: Authorities are looking for two suspects they say robbed a Sioux Falls business late Tuesday night. The two subjects entered Toppers Pizza just before 10:00 p.m. Police say one suspect distracted an employee, while the other pulled a firearm and demanded money. They took some cash then fled the scene.

One person was killed and another was hurt in a two-vehicle crash in Beadle County. According to the South Dakota Highway Patrol, the accident happened Sunday afternoon on U.S. Highway 14 about eight miles east of Wessington.

Two accidents involving children have school officials and police in Rapid City looking both ways. Cars hit two children six days apart in front of Rapid City elementary schools this month. The Rapid City Journal reports minor injuries resulted in the accidents at Wilson Elementary on Wednesday and at Robbinsdale Elementary last week.

A 35-year-old man died Tuesday night in a one-vehicle crash about four miles north of Sioux Falls. The name of the male driver is not being released pending notification of family. He was the only person involved in the crash.

One person died in a crash near Renner on Tuesday night. The South Dakota Highway Patrol said a 35-year-old man was driving a 1993 Chevrolet Suburban on State Highway 115 when he lost control of the SUV. The driver was ejected from the vehicle after it rolled in the ditch.

The South Dakota attorney general says a deputy-involved shooting in Sioux Falls was justified. The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office asked the state Division of Criminal Investigation to review the September shooting of Christopher Sanftleben.

Mitchell: man was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly killing a woman by asphyxiation. Thirty-nine-year-old James Brinker is accused of stuffing a 36-year-old woman’s mouth with a sock, tying a cloth belt around her face, wrapping the woman in a blanket and leaving her on a mattress for a “significant period of time,” leading to her death, according to the Mitchell Police Division.

An Alpena hog barn was destroyed in a fire on Sunday evening, according to officials. At approximately 5:15 p.m. Sunday, a 911 call was received by the Alpena Fire Department about a hog barn on fire one mile north and one mile west of Alpena.

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